I just stumbled across this thread. . .
As I've posted elsewhere, my wife Mary Jo, spent the entire summer of 1957 working in Central City (I met her the following January). It was the summer after her sophomore year in college. She was a Cashier at the Teller House Restaurant, in the hotel adjacent to the Teller Opera House. She always had to dress up in a very nice dress in order to deal with the Denver "hoi-paloi" people who patronized the Opera House in those days.
She shared a room with another girl on the second floor of the two story brick building that is right opposite the top of the Gregory St. grade from Black Hawk, IIRC. She loved it and had a really good time. She could hardly wait, during our honeymoon in July 1960, to show me around Central City and introduce me to some people who were still there whom she knew in 1957. It was my introduction to Central.
WE were in Central a number of times before the gambling garbage started. We visited the area once after gambling came in. We both were disgusted by Black Hawk & didn't even stop here. Central wasn't much better. We never went back.
After the 2006 Narrow Gauge Convention in Durango, we eventually got to the Idaho Springs area and then went straight from Idaho Springs down Hwy. 8 to Golden and passed the entrance to the new "Central City Parkway". She saw that entrance and told me "I don't want to ever see that", meaning both the Parkway (or whatever it's called) and Central. Neither did I, so we went to Golden and then headed back to California on I-70. There will never be any visits by us to Central for the rest of our lives. Period.
Regards, Hart Corbett
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dougvv Wrote:
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> Thanks for the photos and the memories.
>
> I have not been back to Central City since
> gamboling was approved. It was a wonderful looking
> town (as was Cripple Creek). I guess it is now
> like Atlantic City - flashy glitzy casinos and run
> down buildings in between. Nothing really
> successful that is not related to gamboling.
>
> I might return to Cripple Creek to visit the CC&V,
> but the is nothing much left to draw me to the
> Clear Creak area. Both Georgetown-Silver Plume and
> Blackhawk-Central City seem to have become
> superfund cleanup sites.
>
> Glad I have the memories from the Lindsey days.
